Actually more Nazi than Stalinist in style. Stalinist art tends to show smiling, passionate workers. The lack of affect here suggests we might be closer to the "Die for the Fatherland" phase of MAGA Fascism. At least I hope so.
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Actually more Nazi than Stalinist in style. Stalinist art tends to show smiling, passionate workers. The lack of affect here suggests we might be closer to the "Die for the Fatherland" phase of MAGA Fascism. At least I hope so.
The most common euphemism was "Entfernung," meaning "to put at a distance," "to remove." There's a whole subdiscipline of German language studies, "Nazisprache," Nazispeak, with its own dictionaries, etc.
Not hard to see where Leo got the idea: theorangepress.com/redviennarea... [Trotsky was living in Vienna when he wrote his first (Marxawful) art criticism. He was buds with Victor Adler & the Socialist leadership: they spent evening together at Cafe Central when not meeting at Party headquarters:
Which Social Democrats? German-speaking miners in Silesia were represented by the “Austrian” party and Czech speakers by the Czech. Good old Habsburg Empire…
I should add that French revisionists (usually far-Right) are big on data analysis. It makes it easier to fudge the numbers. Very similar to the "double Holocaust" theory: "Stalin was worse than Hitler, so let's go after the Communists!"
...it would allow them to skip the part where you go into the archives looking for that one crucial piece of evidence. That said, I sure would love to know exactly who planned the "spontaneous" execution of the Minister of Finance on July 25, 1789. Best,
is far more archive-based than the one presently under discussion (and there is a mountain of archival evidence available on the FR.) Lefebvre basically founded French Revolution studies at the Sorbonne. It's pretty obvious that the authors of the present study chose this approach because...
A scholarly friend (and the author of a handbook on historical methodology in the Social Sciences) once explained to me that the purpose of any research methodology was to allow you to find what you'd set out to look for at the outset. Lefebvre's methodology (and that of his numerous followers...
So: was the Great Fear a spontaneous uprising of the Proletariat reacting to social pressures (very Marxist, that), or what reactionary historians call la Thèse du complot? I'm more of a Marxist, but there are questions about crowd manipulation in 1789 that I would love to see answered.
Well, I wrote my diss on the FR. Lefebvre's 1932 book is what the French call "incontournable." Lefebvre was a Marxist, & he set the tone for studies of the Rev. until the 70s. As Robert Darnton (another fine non-Marxist) pointed out, un-Marxist historians are still scrambling for another narrative.
We can start now. The damnatio also involved taking all available representations and distorting them to the point of being unrecognizable:
It’s called Jury Nullification and we can expect to see a lot more of it going forward.
With all due respect: I haven't the slightest idea what you're trying to say. Talk of ivory tower elitism.
Resistance takes many forms. Madrid never capitulated to Franco's fascist army. Instead the Loyalists ceased operations & allowed the Fascists to enter unopposed. Except, when the fascist generals arrived at the end of the Metro line the conductor made a fascist salute--& demanded full fare.
Socks with sandals required.
Here's a review I wrote of Kuhn's translation: theorangepress.com/woid/woid21/...
"Come and meet Shere Hite." Been there, done that. (A weird experience.) www.academia.edu/22590852/Pos...
red.bait.cut.
What about Joan Kelly-Gadol?
I've always considered their attitude to Benjamin to be generational, even though Horkheimer was only 3 years older. Like they were the ones tasked with carrying the Marxist Revelation into the future.
Always intrigued by the way these spearheads of Modernity are still fighting fights from fifty years previous: Mehring, Dilthey, etc.
Thing is, Democratic Socialists NYC have threatened to primary The Hak, and The Hak went bananas over the prospect.
My bad. And that's good.
Here's the excellent interactive map. You gotta go granular. (The district covers some of the most reactionary areas of NYC; but I believe the Hack lives in a more progressive area). www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Not fair. As Edward Baptist shows, Black Slaves were the ideal capitalists, building America through hard work and sacrifice. Lotsa sacrifice: www.academia.edu/43561710/The...
I remember, in the midst of May, '68, seeing carloads of Jewish Pieds-noirs (formerly Algerian Jews, therefore arch-reactionary due to the loss of their privileges over Muslim Algerians) waving French & Israeli flags & pumping their horns to the rhythm of "Algérie française!" All de Gaulle's doing.
Something tells me you're missing the irony, here. Look at the quick take on a frowning prime minister George Pompidou (former banker commonly derided as "Le Mouton-Rothschild" (Rotshchild's Lamb) who would succeed de Gaulle as President after May, '68 and radically change the French position. I
Eh, fuggedaboudit
This is what amazes/disgusts me: the anchor falsely claims Mamdani lives in a rent-controlled (as opposed to rent-stabilized) apartment and the Hak, who should know because he represents South Brooklyn, goes right along with the fabrication. How low can you sink?
Not a coincidence, I suspect. There were a lot of progressives and Communists in the arts in Seattle at the time. The inclusion of a Japanese performer must have been a deliberate statement.
"Buss" also means "to kiss." Shows you how much love there is in Zohran's campaign.
Actually, really well. A majority of NY Jews are Mamdani voters, and I'm one of them. Must be kinda tough for you Zionists, kvetching about how you "speak for the Jewish community," when it's Zohran who speaks for us.
I hear you Brother. There's an upscale luxury tower going up right outside my window now.
New Yorkers expect wannabe New Yorkers like you to make grand pronouncements about what New Yorkers should or should not do. Time to push you off the platform -- metaphorically, of course.
Are you aware that Mamdani wants a more equitable distribution of taxes, so that small building owners in the outer boroughs pay less and those in upscale neighborhoods pay more?
c'mon. Last time I canvassed I was joined by a young woman who'd come up from DC for the occasion.
Says the man with 0 followers.
It's terrific training, actually. Looking forward to doing this again.
I think pathetic punks that can't tell the difference between Rent Control and Rent Stabilization should shut their mouths, is what I think.
Goom-bye, you're blocked.
Gillray died in 1815. He was a political satirist and certainly not a late 19th century illustrator of children's books.
Nice. But I would suggest the anti-antisemitism Shatz describes is as hostile to Jews as to Muslims.
Like knowing the difference between rent control and rent stabilization if you're a New Yorker.
By way of an explanation: I attended the same high school as Sartre. I'd say he's letting us down, here.
Also: Du Camp was a first reader and adviser on L'Éducation; I would say Flaubert's silence regarding La Commune would represent some kind of a step in the right direction.
I suspect Sartre would have given preference to Zola who at least was engagé, even if it was the wrong kind of engagement.
Obviously not, but Flaubert's hatred for the revolutionaries of 48 is on full display there. At least Flaubert didn't write the vicious stuff about the Commune that Zola spewed. (Yes, Zola. He was correspondent for Le Télégraphe de Marseille.)
Uncommonly superficial for Sartre. Flaubert was close friends with Maxime Du Camp, who was a Versaillais officer (and who spared the life of Jules Vallès). All you have to do is read L'Éducation sentimentale to understand what Flaubert thought of the Commune.
Just another reformist creep. Also, you clearly do not grasp the full implications of the word "girouette."
My Grampa was a Lower-East-Side Jew for whom Columbia was an unattainable dream. The last time I spoke to him before his death I was able to tell him I'd been accepted. I moved on after one term. Jew, Black, whatever, that place is poison and has been for a long time. No regrets.
Theda Skocpol. States and social revolutions. A comparative analysis of France, Russia, and China.
Cuomo doesn't know the difference between a rent-controlled apartment & a rent-stabilized one. Mamdani's is rent-stabilized. Plus, There's no way a rent-controlled apartment stays rent-controlled after a tenant has left. Cuomo's new refashioning of the "welfare queen" myth.
Yes. I know. www.academia.edu/116716242/On...
Been there, done that. www.academia.edu/22590852/Pos...
Lots of good stuff everywhere if only, like you, one is able to see through it. They're pretty transparent, actually, and their treatment of "anti-Semitism" reeks of AIPAC shilling.
Long and short: The City (as usual) is shilling for the big boys. Only the beginning of the attacks against Mamdani.
theorangepress.substack.com/p/from-the-o... From the Old Irish (loosely translated): Today along the rows of melons I’m picking fruit under a thousand suns On such a day I pick my crop at ease ICEmen melt among the wilting leaves
Halfway between Maxfield Parrish and approved Nazi art. Appropriately enough.
To quote an old joke: "Sure, but am I fleishig or milchig?"
Aktiv werden (and I don't mean a morning run): palaestinasolidaritaet.at
That's cool. But we have to remember that no Socialist government can survive without preparing for the brutal violence that will inevitably unleashed against it by its oligarchic enemies.
This year, Tisha b’Av falls on National Watermelon Day. Live with it. theorangepress.substack.com/p/its-all-ab...
"Die Juden sind unser Unglück!" ("The Jews are our misfortune!"): motto of the official Nazi publication Der Stürmer.
"First we ignore them; then we sneer at them; then we claim to represent the true Left, but you know, critical; then we increase our readership by poaching on their membership."
theorangepress.substack.com/p/from-the-o... Today along the rows of melons I’m picking fruit under a thousand suns On such a day I pick my crop at ease ICEmen melt among the wilting leaves
Particularly ironic after the Times spent decades "cleaning up" Midtown (meaning, making the POCs and lower class folks who were its economic mainstay disappear.) What goes 'round comes 'round.
Just class solidarity, is all. "What's the world coming to if us movers & shakers are no longer safe from retribution."
Forgotten? Oh, Jeremy, you're such an envious, competitive little man.
Not Diderot. Jean Meslier. Beware AI.
The Susan Collins of Maine.
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48478/... www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/o...
But seriously; it’s not as if there was some kind of theoretical wasteland in America concerning psychoanalytic concepts—in fact there were rather intense discussions of its political and social import involving everyone from Karen Horney to Paul Goodman.
That’s the topographic model. Now do the structural. “The super-ego is the CEO...”
As a former student of Ros Krauss: 10x❤️.
"I came to post icons, lift iron, and remind men that silence is sacred." Holy. Holy. Holy. Blocked.
My philosopher father-in-law used to pronounce it “Ronshtadt.” Let’s not go there.
Try Los Danzantes. A Michelin one-star and possibly the best restaurant I know.
“[The Socialist Movement] is the natural outcome of [America’s] development. […] You will see that Socialism has sprung up in that country without the aid of foreigners, & was merely caused by the concentration of capital & the changed relations between the workmen & their employers." Karl Marx.
Jacques Rancière, Le Partage du sensible.
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Duh theorangepress.substack.com
There’s an Isaac Asimov story like that.
Oh the naïveté…
e la lor cieca vita è tanto bassa, che 'nvidïosi son d'ogne altra sorte. Fama di loro il mondo esser non lassa; misericordia e giustizia li sdegna: non ragioniam di lor, ma guarda e passa.
Quite the privileged colonialist bully ourselves, aren't we? Blocked, obviously.
Not sure I follow you. There's been plenty of decolonial art & art theory, say, in Latin America, for a long time, so why "in the UK and the US?"
Review: A very small exhibition devoted to the Dreyfus Affair--and art. theorangepress.substack.com/p/an-avengin...
Today was a Sunday during Summer vacation & the Musée d’Orsay was mobbed; I didn't notice anyone with a smartphone except myself. I'm an art critic & my phone is invaluable for research and publication. I'm sorry you had a less-than-pleasant afternoon. Blaming other visitors is a waste of energy.
Assuming that's the basic premise...
Also, melons. theorangepress.substack.com/p/socialism
"In the last instance" might sounds better coming from a Socialist. And I mean it in a good way.
